I met a girl at Walden Market
At Walden Market coming home
I said to her 'My pretty fair one
Why so sadly do you roam?'

She said 'I've been to Walden Market
For there they took my spotted cow
And gave her to the cruel butchers
So I have lost my Daisy now'.

I said to her 'My pretty fair one
Then take a walk a mile with me.
I have a calf with a star on his forehead
That little brown calf I'll give to thee'

She said 'I thank you, handsome stranger,
But your brown calf's too young for me.
My Daisy was the finest heifer
That on these meadows you did see'

'Well if my calf it does not suit you
Then take from me my heart instead.
And we will win the Flitch of Bacon
In Dunmow Town when we are wed.'

The young girl's eyes they filled with tears
And not one word to me did say
But all along the green lanes brightly
We walked arm in arm that summer day.

Collected in Suffolk by Neil Langham. Unforgiveably I can't remember the singer's name. He had it from his mother.